- Date
- September 26, 2010, 13:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Prescott, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N1558DCessna 195
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 16, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20100926048539A
- Case key
- 77405
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll, resulting in a runway excursion.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot started the takeoff roll with a slight crosswind from the left. He indicated that the start of the roll seemed normal, but then the airplane began to drift to the right side of the runway. He started a correction to the left and the airplane did an abrupt left turn. It subsequently made a sharp turn back to the right with the tail swinging left. The airplane departed the right side of the runway surface and the left main landing gear snapped off. As a result of the accident sequence the left wing sustained substantial damage.
Factual narrative
The pilot started the takeoff roll from runway 21L with a slight crosswind from the left. He indicated that the start of the roll seemed normal, but then the airplane started to drift to the right side of the runway. He started a correction to the left, and the airplane did an abrupt left turn. It then turned sharply back to the right with the tail swinging left. The airplane departed the right side of the runway surface, and the left main landing gear snapped off. The left wing and aileron sustained substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1558D
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7780
- Airframe hours
- 3,237
- Engine
- Jacobs 35006
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dean Wollaston
- Registered owner
- Dean Wollaston
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · September 20, 2010
- Departed
- PRC · Prescott, AZ
- Destination
- TCC · Tucumcari, NM
- Airport
- PRC · Prescott, runway 21L, 7,616 × 150 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 79
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11,500 total · 8 in this make and model · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 32.02 inHg
- Observed at
- KPRC
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 8, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 176 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N1558D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.